The 1918 Pandemic
Narrator: November 1918, Armistice Day. Around the world, people celebrate the end of four years of 1 . But there’s another horror unfolding in the shadow of war. A deadly 2 sweeping the world. Schools and theatres are shut down. Coffins are 3 high. The flu pandemic kills over 4 people. Many of them die cruelly.
Doctor: She’d finally drowned in her profuse, thin, bloodstained sputum, constantly bubbling forth.
Narrator: Only by going back to rare and previously unseen letters, diaries and memoirs of those who fought the 5 can we fully understand what happened.
Nurse: Just try and breathe.
Narrator: The heroic efforts of nurses and doctors. Fateful decisions of key officials.
Officials: The relentless needs of warfare justify the risk of spreading infection.
Narrator: The experience of ill and the dying.
Girl: My grandmother tells me my mother has gone to Jesus. But I want my mummy back.
Narrator: Hidden in this personal testimony are clues that can benefit us today.
Male Voice: What if the apocalyptic 1918 pandemic were to recur? That’s a scary prospect.
Narrator: Pinpointing the lessons learned and mistakes made in 1918 will help prepare us for the next global 6 .
Female Voice: Everybody would agree that another flu pandemic will happen. And what 1918 does is illustrate to us how bad it could be.
Narrator: November 1918, Armistice Day. Around the world, people celebrate the end of four years of 1 . But there’s another horror unfolding in the shadow of war. A deadly 2 sweeping the world. Schools and theatres are shut down. Coffins are 3 high. The flu pandemic kills over 4 people. Many of them die cruelly.
Doctor: She’d finally drowned in her profuse, thin, bloodstained sputum, constantly bubbling forth.
Narrator: Only by going back to rare and previously unseen letters, diaries and memoirs of those who fought the 5 can we fully understand what happened.
Nurse: Just try and breathe.
Narrator: The heroic efforts of nurses and doctors. Fateful decisions of key officials.
Officials: The relentless needs of warfare justify the risk of spreading infection.
Narrator: The experience of ill and the dying.
Girl: My grandmother tells me my mother has gone to Jesus. But I want my mummy back.
Narrator: Hidden in this personal testimony are clues that can benefit us today.
Male Voice: What if the apocalyptic 1918 pandemic were to recur? That’s a scary prospect.
Narrator: Pinpointing the lessons learned and mistakes made in 1918 will help prepare us for the next global 6 .
Female Voice: Everybody would agree that another flu pandemic will happen. And what 1918 does is illustrate to us how bad it could be.
举一反三
- How do we know the narrator is getting old? A: No one is looking after the narrator properly. B: The narrator has lots of golden memories. C: There are strange sounds and signs of people who have lived there in the past. D: Then eighbourhood isn't what it used to be.
- What is the narrator’s profession? How do you know?
- Sucker’s twelve, four years older than narrator, and he always knew without narrator even telling him that narrator didn’t want kids that age meddling with his things.
- What does the narrator say at the beginning of the video?
- What does the narrator devote her writing to elaberate in her love journey?